Richard Balson
Head Of Data And Analytics
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
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Top SchoolRichard Balson is a technology and data executive with 13 years’ experience building and industrializing AI and analytics at scale across major Australian enterprises. He has led teams from hands-on model development to enterprise-wide governance, growing data science groups from small teams to hundreds of practitioners and shipping automated production models across fraud, risk, logistics and marketing. As Head of Data Science at Woolworths and previously at NAB and ANZ, he has driven responsible AI, model governance and GenAI use-case discovery while embedding deployment and monitoring automation. His background—PhD-level work in biomedical engineering and early research in neurological anomaly detection—gives him deep domain rigor and a knack for translating complex research into robust production systems. Based in Greater Melbourne, he combines strategic leadership with practical delivery, having directly influenced data-driven revenue and operational gains. Colleagues describe him as a builder of capability who balances technical depth, governance discipline and scalable product thinking.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The University of MelbourneBachelor of Engineering (BEng) Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Electrical and Electronic Engineering at University of Pretoria
Afrikaans, EnglishGithub contributions (4)
RichardBalson/JansenUKF
Jul 2013 - Aug 2013
Contributions:10 commits in 18 days
RichardBalson/Neural_Mass_Model_Estimation
Mar 2013 - Mar 2013
Contributions:3 commits in 19 days
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